tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:51:34 +0000eportfolioscw2008Welcome to Teaching Writing in an Online World, a TechNotes experiment in blogging. -- Nick Carbonehttp://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/noreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)Blogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-2934454010467171259Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:21:00 +00002010-04-09T13:21:17.752-04:00Here it is:http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2010/04/twitter-of-gats2010.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-5209486467175102971Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:26:00 +00002010-03-02T07:26:38.834-05:00First, the traditional route . . .  http://tinyurl.com/mvjsg7 What to Do When You’re Looking For A Job, Part 1 By Gina Barreca in The Chronicle of Higher Education This gently tweaks the usual advice for following an academic career path. Also see the CHE's jobs section for advice on being on the market the first time: http://chronicle.com/section/First-Time-on-the-Market-/146/ Remember, evenhttp://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2010/03/alternative-careers-for-phds-in-non.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-9146075180234646773Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:26:00 +00002009-08-12T11:01:31.253-04:00This post by Steve Benen at the Washington Monthly blog features excerpts from a New Hampshire Town Hall conducted by President Obama.It occurs to me, on reading Benen's summary, and having listened to some of Obama's press conferences and speeches, that his legal training combined with his writing ability make him a master of rebutting, through explicit counter-arguments, the critiques of his http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2009/08/rebutter-in-chief.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-7307302243606157287Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:27:00 +00002009-07-26T11:33:11.316-04:00So much of writing is about the author shaping how he or she is to be perceived; it's about ethos, persona, and voice.What's fascinating in this early Internet age are the increasing number of places and ways writers can write. All the print forms persist -- articles, papers, books, profiles, newsletters, and more. And added to these are new ways of being via writing: blogs, social networks, http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2009/07/blogs-vs-social-networks-how-identity.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-6504735589025000075Wed, 21 May 2008 11:25:00 +00002008-05-21T07:33:38.196-04:00eportfolioscw2008I arrived in Athens, GA last night, getting to the hotel about 9 pm.Happily, despite some heavy traffic made slower by some intermittent hard rain, the ride from the airport to Athens passed quickly because I had good company: Carole Clark Papper and Lynda Haas.We met up at Budget counter -- me coming from Boston, Carole from Long Island, and Lynda from the LA area.The conference --http://http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2008/05/computers-and-writing-2008-athens-ga.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-115677554096635999Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:52:00 +00002006-08-28T10:53:03.693-04:00Why am I posting about a Firefox API on a teaching tips blog? Because it's so useful for teaching, even though it's not a teaching tool per se. The API is called Flashblocker --you can get it here: http://flashblock.mozdev.org/.It blocks Flash movies from playing automatically when you land on page. For a lot of my browsing, and often when I'm showing sites in workshops or the classrooms, the http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2006/08/useful-api-for-firefox.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-115573407998366982Wed, 16 Aug 2006 12:49:00 +00002006-12-05T06:15:50.146-05:00Soumya Srinagesh, a student intern at C|Net News, advises her peers not to rely on Wikipedia as a primary source.This advice comes to the same end conclusion as that given by Wikipedia co-founder Jim Wales' own advice not to use Wikipedia --or any Encyclopedia-- as a sole or primary source.The usual back and forth in this debate is that Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, and that you might use anhttp://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2006/08/student-advises-dont-cite-wikipedia.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-115469540073519240Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:42:00 +00002006-12-18T20:13:36.466-05:00In today's Boston Globe, there's an article called "A new high-tech take on school group project," by Kim-Mai Cutler. The piece describes how one professor, Sheizaf Rafaeli at the University of Haifa in Israel, "hated seeing his students shell out money for expensive, outdated textbooks. So he let them write one themselves."What technology did he use? Why a Wiki of course because it's an ideal http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2006/08/wikimania-conference-free-text-book.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-115462972925763003Thu, 03 Aug 2006 18:01:00 +00002006-08-03T14:28:49.323-04:00In a Washington Post piece called "Art and Marketing All Mashed Up," Sara Kehaulani Goo reviews how mash-up videos are being used to comment on popular culture, products, and current events. Goo explains that a "mash-up video mixes original images or sounds with music, quick-witted narrations or creative transitions. The result is a video dialogue of sorts that makes a statement that is http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2006/08/mash-up-fun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-114778810676353015Tue, 16 May 2006 13:52:00 +00002006-07-13T15:16:30.086-04:00In a Writing Center discussion list exchange, the issue of using Turnitin.com as a tool in the writing center to help students see where they have uncited text came up. As much as I don't like Turnitin.com, I found myself agreeing with the approach and the particular use of the tool in the Writing Center. Here's what I wrote:The strategy of using Turnitin.com (or MyDropBox.com, for that matter) http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2006/05/converting-practices.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-113406667485085910Thu, 08 Dec 2005 18:12:00 +00002005-12-08T13:35:49.913-05:00In my job -- Director of New Media for a college textbook company -- one of the dangers we face is overthinking a new idea. So we might have a new idea for an interactive WWW activity, something we haven't done before.A meeting is called. The idea is pitched. And then sometimes --not always, but often enough to notice-- the idea falls apart because the right questions are asked too soon: who willhttp://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/12/experimenting-matters-why-everyone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-113141793688061380Tue, 08 Nov 2005 02:42:00 +00002005-11-07T22:20:01.390-05:00We live in the northeast, just outside of Boston. The winters are cold and sometimes long, with the furnance humming from mid October to mid March, and pretty regular into April often. We heat with gas. Katrina. Soaring fuel prices predicted for this winter. And so because my income isn't tied to the cost of basic necessities, to keep things in budget balance, the money for heat has to come from http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/11/choosing-internet-over-television.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-113042188623248400Thu, 27 Oct 2005 14:01:00 +00002006-09-22T01:05:45.236-04:00Brock Read, writing in "After Songs and Videos, Crib Notes Become the Latest Offering for iPods," Chronicle of Higher Education. 10-17-05, observes, "That [SparkNotes text and audio] could be bad news for professors, who may worry that such small devices could easily become digital cheat sheets in the hands of unscrupulous students." It's not the technology that makes SparkNotes a cheatsheet.http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/sparknotes-come-to-ipod-chronicle-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-113007942571944106Sun, 23 Oct 2005 14:57:00 +00002005-10-23T11:33:00.666-04:00At http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/10/23/frankenstrunk/, Jan Freeman's The Word column, "Frankenstrunk," looks at the latest, cartoon enhanced edition of Will Strunk and E.B. White's The Elements of Style and asks, why, why is this book still revised and republished.Of course, the answer is, as Freeman says, because even though the book itself is now irretrievably --to use a http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/frankenstrunk-is-shrunken-strunk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112990561981808510Fri, 21 Oct 2005 13:35:00 +00002006-01-04T17:12:44.163-05:00This is a miscellany post, a collection of rough ideas and links for a presentation I'm giving today at TYCA Southwest : No Writer is an Island; All Writing is Connected to Sources Students know, on one level, that they need to acknowledge sources and use them wisely, but on another, they're also faced with being graded as individuals. Sometimes, in the push to meet criteria for theirhttp://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/no-writer-is-island-tyca-sw.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112989458098075005Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:33:00 +00002005-10-21T07:49:30.830-04:00Inside Higher Ed has an essay by Tarleton Gillespie -- "Between What’s Right and What’s Easy" (http://insidehighered.com/views/2005/10/21/gillespie) -- which argues that technologies such as the Copyright Clearance Center's new plugin for Blackboard (and soon, with the merger, WebCT as well most likely) that is designed to ease the ability to seek permission for using materials and content in http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/avoid-fared-use-assert-fair-use.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112950785069324271Sun, 16 Oct 2005 23:35:00 +00002005-10-24T06:40:49.706-04:00We all know that there are plenty of term paper sites out there. You practically trip over them. The first impulse is to warn students against using them and to worry that they will use them. When I'm teaching, I find a more useful impulse is to use them for my own ends.If you go, for example, to Schoolsucks.com, you'll find plenty of student papers. Here are two ways to use a site like this: http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/free-student-papers-for-teachers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112898967165883459Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:14:00 +00002005-10-10T20:14:31.690-04:00Will Richardson over at weblogg-ed describes (emphasis mine) the shifting notion of what it means to teach:Provided we have access, we're not the best source of knowledge in our subjects any longer. We're no longer the only teachers our students can have on any particular subject. We're not the only audience for our students' work. We're no longer limited by the four walls of our classrooms. And http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/beyond-four-walls-what-it-means-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112878684915715964Sat, 08 Oct 2005 15:54:00 +00002005-10-08T11:54:09.890-04:00A copy of a comment I wrote over at Next/Text. I'm putting it here because I'm not sure it posted there (got an error message after posting): I've seen the same behavior Kathy's described -- students despising the books they're assigned to read. Sometimes they should. The books are bad. Sometimes they don't like the book for other reasons -- they don't care for the course; the subject doesn't http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/writing-about-literature-in-media-age.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112859265339678434Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:57:00 +00002005-10-06T05:57:33.456-04:00In "The Blogosphere as a Carnival of Ideas" (http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i07/07b01401.htm), Henry Farrell describes how and why academics are using blogs, noting along the way how they differ from some forms of traditional scholarly publishing, but recall other forms. Of note and use are some of the links to blogs referenced in the piece, and for me, this observation and prediction: Why are sohttp://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/blogosphere-as-carnival-of-ideas.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112851317015307276Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:52:00 +00002005-10-05T23:03:51.203-04:00In Peer Review: Writing and Students' Engagement, Richard J. Light, reports on a student who in her senior discovered the value of peer review. In this excerpt, the brief description of the rules of the group are telling and useful:The friend told her that, at the newspaper, editors criticize one another's writing ruthlessly. Relentlessly. For many student writers, this tough but constructive http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/peer-review-writing-and-students.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112851107110991705Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:17:00 +00002006-12-18T18:21:12.246-05:00In Writing Portfolios: What Teachers Learn from Student Self-Assessment, Kim Johnson-Bogart wonderfully describes --through her students own words-- the power and benefits of peer review. The Power of Peers Students' portfolios and reflective essays have also taught me that they learn from each other and want to contribute to each other. They want to be useful. And what I find is that http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/power-of-peers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112836712811280840Mon, 03 Oct 2005 19:18:00 +00002006-12-18T18:20:41.383-05:00What some students forget is that if they can find an article to steal from, I can probably find it, too. When I edit assignments, I plug random quotes, clauses, and full sentences into search engines to check for similar word patterns. I look closely at poetic turns of phrase or quotes that seem too good to be true and verify the names of all sources and affiliations. If I can't confirm the http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/10/teaching-about-cheating.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112715642097758389Mon, 19 Sep 2005 19:00:00 +00002005-09-19T15:00:21.026-04:00Joel Foreman at GMU has a good little piece on the similarities between videogames and good teachers. Good teachers and good videogames motivate students/players to pay attention, for example. The article is short and just touches the surface of things, but there are some useful links to books worth reading and leads to follow.http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/09/videogames-and-good-teachers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5458472.post-112638058648954481Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:21:00 +00002011-12-21T10:01:38.671-05:00Just posted a version of this on WPA-L in response to a query on setting up an online course. 1. Put the goals of the writing course first. What do you want students to learn about writing; how do you want them to think about writing? 2. Online courses struggle most often to sustain a sense of learning community. Without proper activities that require student to student interaction -- http://ncarbone.blogspot.com/TeachingWriting/2005/09/notes-on-creating-online-writing-class.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nick Carbone)2